Matt Patterson 2025
“In forty years of practice, this is by far the most rewarding endeavor of my career.”
“In forty years of practice, this is by far the most rewarding endeavor of my career.”
“I ended up being a pallbearer at the burial,” (referring to the reinternment ceremony at West Laurel Hill Cemetery) “For anyone with a passion for history, seeing these men finally given honorable burials, it’s any historian’s dream to be involved in something like that.”
“We see God’s hand and a greater purpose in all of this, mysteries that have remained mysteries for generations are supposed to remain mysterious.”
Speaking at the wake of Catherine Burns in Washingbay, near Coalisland in County Tyrone. “Her story of hopes dashed and dreams shattered is not unique. So in honoring the homecoming of Catherine we are honoring countless other exiles who sailed out of Ireland in the hope of a new life far from home but did not find the streets paved with gold.”